Béla Fleck has been nominated in more categories than any other musician in Grammy history

13 WINS

1995 Best Country Instrumental Performance, Hightower by Asleep at the Wheel with Béla Fleck and Johnny Gimble 1996 Best Pop Instrumental Performance, The Sinister Minister by Béla Fleck And The Flecktones (with Sam Bush & Paul McCandless) 1998 Best Instrumental Composition, Almost 12 by Béla Fleck And The Flecktones 2000 Best Contemporary Jazz Album, Outbound by Béla Fleck And The Flecktones Best Country Instrumental Performance, Leaving Cottondale by Alison Brown and Béla Fleck 2001 Best Instrumental Arrangement, Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum from Children's Corner Suite (Debussy) by Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer Best Classical Crossover Album, Perpetual Motion by Béla Fleck with Edgar Meyer, Joshua Bell, and others 2006 Best Contemporary Jazz Album, The Hidden Land by Béla Fleck And The Flecktones 2009 Best Pop Instrumental Album, Jingle All The Way by Béla Fleck And The Flecktones 2010 Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Throw Down Your Heart by Béla Fleck Best Contemporary World Music Album, Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 by Béla Fleck 2011 Best Contemporary World Music Album, Throw Down Your Heart, Africa Sessions Part 2: Unreleased Track by Béla Fleck 2012 Best Instrumental Composition, Life in Eleven by Béla Fleck and Howard Levy

Actually the list of nominations doesn't include the 13 nominations that he actually won. So I would consider that 38 nominations . . . or do the wins not count as nominations? . . . not sure how that works